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Gravitation  and  the  Tides 


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H.  D.  HOUGHAM 


THE 


MECHANICAL    CAUSE 


OF 


Gravitation  and  tlie  Tides 


BY 


H.  D.  HOUGHAM 


OAKLAND,  CALIFORNIA 

ARTISTIC   LIFE   PRESS 
1899 

COPYRIGHTED 


I  have  written  no  preface  for  this  pamphlet.  If  it  has  merit 
it  will  write  its  own  preface  in  the  future  ;  if  it  has  no  merit,  it 
will  do  the  same  thing  for  its  epitaph. 

H.    D.    HOUGHAM. 

Oakland,  Cal. 
Oct.  I,    1899. 


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THE    MECHANICAL    CAUSE    OF    GRAVITATION 

AND    THE    TIDES 


Dear  Reader: — At  the  time  I  authorized  the  following  in- 
terview in  the  Call,  I  had  not  decided  to  give  the  result  of  my 
experiments  and  study  to  the  public;  as  you  will  see,  there  is  no 
explanation  of  the  mechanism  of  the  system,-  for,  as  I  believed 
then,  and  still  believe,  there  is  an  economic  value  in  my  discover}'. 
Failing  health,  however,  has  decided  me  to  present  it  to  the  world, 
and  though  the  explanation  in  this  pamphlet  may  be  so  crude 
and  rambling  as  not  to  be  rightly  understood,  I  have  tried,  as 
much  as  possible,  to  avoid  the  use  of  technical  terminology,  and 
to  use  plain,  household  words  that  all  can  understand, — I  am  not 
writing  for  a  class,  but  for  the  general  public.  I  claim  I  can 
maintain  my  theory,  and  am  willing  to  go  before  any  body  of  men 
with  full  faith  in  my  ability  to  demonstrate  the  correctness  of  my 
theories. 


THE     INTERVIEW 
[From    the   San    Francisco    Call,  April   4,    1897] 

/||\R    H.    D.   HOUGHAM  of  Oakland  thinks   that  he    has  dis- 
covered the  mechanical  "why"  for  gravitation;  the  "why" 
whose  existence  Sir  Isaac  Newton  conceded,  and  at  the  same  time 
confessed  that  he  could  not  find  it. 

Mr.  Hougham  has  been  working  over  the  problem  for  forty 
years,  and  he  now  believes  that  he  has  solved  it,  and  that  success 
has  finally  crowned  his  labors. 

The  scientist  was  visited  in  his  home  across  the  bay  by  a 
Sunday  Call  reporter,  to  whom  he  talked  most  interestingly 
concerning  his  supposed  discovery  of  a  new  principle  in  mechani- 
cal science. 

"  After  forty  years  of  experimenting  and  study,"  said  Mr. 
Hougham,  "I  claim  to  have  discovered  the  mechanical  and  mathe- 


<.v 


-:.    •   •  ^  6  — 


matical  principles  in  which  electricity,  heat  and  other  forces  of 
matter,  both  materialized  and  etherealized,  operate  to  produce 
many  of  the  phenomena  that  we  see  in  nature,  as  we  call  it,  but  as 
I  believe  there  is  an  economic  value  in  my  discovery,  at  present 
I  can  give  you  only  some  of  the  cardinal  points  leading  up  to  it. 

"  When  Newton  picked  out  the  latin  words  '  centrum  pelo  ' 
and  'centrum  fugo,'  out  of  which  he  coined  the  two  English  words 
centripetal  and  centrifugal,  and  applied  them  as  names  to  the  two 
motions  or  forces  which  he  claims  to  have  discovered  and  explained 
that  always  exist  in  a  body  revolving  on  an  axis,  he  assumed  at 
once  that  our  earth  was  endowed  with  the  same  condition  of  force 
and  motion,  and  as  he  found  that  the  centrifugal  force  was  from 
the  centre  at  a  right  angle  from  the  radia  of  that  centre,  he  found 
that  force  not  to  be  in  harmony  with  world-building,  and  then 
claimed  to  have  discovered  what  he  called  the  law  of  gravitation 
to  counteract  his  other  force — that  is,  a  law  that  clothes  matter 
with  the  power  of  acting  at  a  distance,  altliough  he  admitted  that 
he  believed  that  there  was  a  mechanical  'why'  for  gravitation,  liut 
he  could  not  find  it.  and  claimed  the  credit  of  discovering  only  the 
mathematical  'whw'  The  mechanical  'why'  is  what  I  claim  to 
have  discovered,  and  I  do  not  claim  it  as  a  theory  alone. 

"  I  would  not  give  a  fig  for  any  man's  theory  or  a  cent  for  my 
own  if  I  had  one,  if  I  did  not  have  something  tangible  behind  it. 
I  claim  in  describing  it  I  can  materially  demonstrate,  mechanically 
illustrate  and  methematically  prove  it.  If  I  should  go  into  my  mill 
to  put  in  some  additional  machinery  and  I  should  find  that  some 
of  the  old  pulleys  were  running  the  wrong  way  to  suit  the  new 
pulleys,  what  would  1  do  ?  Reverse  the  engine  ami  shafting  ?  By 
no  means.  1  would  cross  \.\\u  ])clt  and  the  new  pulley  would  run 
the  right  way.  Now,  that  is  just  what  nature  does.  She  crosses 
her  belts.  T>ut  one  may  sa>-  thai  there  is  no  such  thing  as  a  \isible 
tangible  Ijelt  in  tlic  nebular  liypolhesis.  I  grant  it  :  but  what  is  the 
operation  of  a  visible  tangible  belt?  Nothing  l)ul  force  operating 
upon  the  lines  of  least  resistance  within  the  form  and  substance  of 
the  belt,  and  that  is  what  electricity  and  all  other  forces  in  nature 
do, — always  act  on  tlie  lines  of  least  resistance  within  the  hnni  and 
svibstance  of  whatever  they  are  acting  in,  and  the  forces  in  their 
operations  in  nature  as  we  call  it,  cross  these  line.s  ot  least  resist- 
ance, and  the  scientist  has  never  been  able  to  explain  their  mechan- 
ism. They  point  out  the  many  crossed  lines  in  astronomy  and 
physical   geography,  and    the  crossing   of  the   nerves  as   they  pass 


from  the  spinal  cord  to  the  brain  at  the  medulla  oblongata,  the 
motor  optic,  and  nearly  all  the  nerves  of  the  human  and  animal 
body  on  which  flow  the  nervous  fluid,  but  the}  have  never  been 
able  to  explain  the  mathematical  and  mechanical  operation  of  these 
systems  of  vibratory  energy,  and  like  our  earth,  the  cyclone,  water- 
spout, the  shot  falling  from  the  shot-tower,  hail,  rain,  and  many 
other  systems  of  energy  that  seem  a  puzzle  to  them — that  is  what 
I  claim  to  be  able  to  explain  1 

"The  explanation  carries  with  it  no  puzzle  or  seeming  incon- 
sistencies, as  there  is  in  some  of  Newton's  theories.  Take  one  of  his 
theories  that  space  has  three  dimensions,  then  just  consider  a  body 
of  matter  like  our  earth,  8,000  miles  through,  with  all  its  mountain 
ranges  and  inequalities,  with  free  access  to  this  space  revolving 
upon  but  one  axis,  what  is  there  to  keep  it  from  deviating  or  turn- 
ing on  some  other  axis,  and  if  it  should,  what  is  there  to  stop  it 
or  bring  it  back?  Within  the  last  few  years  I  have  read  a  number 
of  pamphlets  from  different  authors,  wherein  they  claim  that  there 
is  the  fourth  dimension  to  space,  and  our  failure  to  comprehend  it 
is  the  cause  of  our  ignorance  of  the  mechanism  of  the  universe. 

"  Now.  I  deny  that  there  is  any  such  thing  as  dimension  to 
space.  What  we  call  space  is  a  condition  between  forms,  and  is 
not  an  entity,  and  has  no  existence  in  fact,  and  you  cannot  give 
dimensions  to  a  non-existing  nothing.  What  seems  to  designate  to 
us  the  condition  we  call  space  is  nothing  but  the  principles  that 
govern  the  possibilities  and  impossibilities  of  the  vibratory  energy 
of  the  absolute  of  the  form,  together  with  the  joint  product  of  that 
vibratory  energy  governed  by  all  the  possibilities  and  impossi- 
bilities of  the  motion  of  the  form  itself. 

"  The  reason  why,  as  I  claim,  that  there  is  stability  apparent 
in  our  planet,  is  that  the  motion  that  we  see  is  the  elusive  motion 
of  form,  that  is,  the  combined  product  of  the  invisible  mathemati- 
cal, mechanically  organized  S3'Stems  of  the  vibratory  energy  of  the 
absolute  of  matter,  or  the  mathematically  arranged  units  of  form. 

"  In  a  system  that  I  can  show  is  a  spontaneity  in  nature  wherein 
all  the  systems  so  arranged  themselves  as  in  the  snowflake  that 
the  vibratory  energy  is  constantly  recurring  back  to  itself,  or  back 
to  first  primary  motion,  so  that,  when  the  system  is  once  created, 
like  a  waterspout  over  the  ocean,  for  instance,  every  system  of  vi- 
bratory energy  embodies  within  itself  both  cause  and  eff'ect,  for  the 
kinetic  energy  of  each  system  is  so  utilized  by  crossing  the  lines 
of  least  resistance,  that  all  the  generative  forces  in  the  form  are 


—   8  — 

turned  in  upon  themselves,  and  create  a  pressure  toward  a  common 
center.  I  can  show  that  that  system  is  in  harmony  with  world- 
building  without  the  invention  of  any  law  of  gravitation  or  any 
other  law  separate  from  matter  or  force,  for  a  law  is  nothing  and 
does  nothing. 

"  Laws  do  not  execute  themselves.  It  takes  force  to  create 
motion. 

"To  show  how  easily  Newton  might  have  been  deceived,  I 
will  illustrate.  I  will  place  you  in  a  boat  with  a  man  rowing  you 
due  west.  You  know  the  boat  is  going  west;  you  see  the  man 
rowing  you  west  at  the  same  time  that  a  wind  is  blowing  >ou  due 
north.  You  know  the  boat  is  going  north.  You  feel  the  wind 
blowing  you  north.  Now,  your  judgnient  and  understanding, 
governed  by  your  reasoning  faculties,  tell  you  that  the  boat  cannot 
go  north  and  west  at  the  same  time  in  separate  paths;  that  the  two 
systems  of  vibratory  energy,  created  within  the  form  and  substance 
of  the  boat  by  the  two  forces,  the  man  and  the  wind,  impel  the 
boat  to  form  a  resultant  motion,  and  grant,  lor  this  illvistration, 
that  the  force  of  the  wind  was  etiual  lo  the  force  of  the  man,  that 
resultant  motion  would  be  due  northwest. 

"  Now,  suppose  >-ou  could  not  see  the  man  nor  feel  tin.'  wind, 
and  the  existence  of  those  two  separate  and  di.-tiiict  causes  were 
unknown  to  you,  and  could  not  be  recognized  by  any  of  your 
senses  or  modes  of  observation,  what  would  you  say  was  the  cause 
of  the  motion  of  the  boat  northwest,  which  you  see?  Would  \"ou 
say,  as  Newton  did  ab  nit  that  apple,  that  there  was  something  in 
the  northwest   that  attracted  it? 

"You  see  in  ihi^  illustration  out  of  the  man\-  possible  nu)tions 
of  the  form  of  the  boat  I  have  employed  only  two,  and  out  of  the 
possible  number  of  systems  of  vitiratory  energy  that  could  be 
created  williiii  tlie  form  and  sui)Stance  of  tlic  boat  by  force.  I  liave 
employed  only  two. 

''Now  I  want  to  sa\-  about  Ne-wton's  apple,  that  the  apjile 
before  it  fell  Irom  tlic  tree  was  fulliHing  all  tla-  possibilities  of 
motion  and  \ibration  and  was  only  a  i)art  of  a  s\stem,  the  forces  of 
which  are  .so  mechanically  and  matlK'Uialie'ally  arranged,  that  the 
system  controls  and  utilizes  all  ot  tiie  e(.iUritugal  and  kiiietit- 
energies  in  such  a  way  as  to  recur  llieni  bat-k  to  tlie  sv^lLin  and 
create  a  motion  and  ])ressure,  and  when  the  ap])le  fell  it  was  obev- 
ing  a  force  and  not  a  law,  and  that  force  was  a  pri-duit  of  \  ibration, 
and    that  vibration   was  within   the  su1)stance  of  the  apple  and  not 


—  9  — 

outside  of  it.  Nature  never  gets  outside  of  itself.  If  it  could. 
Newton  might  put  his  centrifugal  force  where  nature  could  not 
handle  it. 

"If  3'ou  are  a  contractor  and  I  give  you  a  job  to  lay  a  stone 
sidewalk,  about  the  first  question  you  will  ask  is,  in  what  shape 
do  I  want  the  block  put  down.  I  will  tell  you  that  there  are  but 
three  shapes  that  will  fit  a  superficial  area  without  interstices 
between,  and  they  are  the  equilateral  triangle,  the  hexagon  and 
square.  You  may  make  forms  all  your  lif  and  make  untold 
millions  of  them,  but  you  never  can  make  forms  but  the  three, 
that  will  fit  a  superficial  area  without  leaving  interstices  between, 
but  all  the  millions  that  you  could  make  equal  onl>'  the  three, 
for  the  three  embody  all  their  lines.  And  so  it  is  with  the  solid 
figures.  There  are  but  five  solid  figures  that  can  have  an  equal 
mathematical  and  mechanical  division  with  a  common  center,  and 
they  are  called  the  platonic  figures,  after  Plato,  who  discovered 
them.  Now  you  may  make  untold  millions  of  solid  figures,  but 
you  can  never  make  one  that  can  have  a  mathematical  division 
with  a  common  center  but  the  five,  and  all  the  millions  that  you 
can  make  will  equal  only   the  five,  for  they  embody  all  their  lines. 

"  vSo,  too,  with  the  principles  of  vibration  and  life  that  run  this 
universe.  There  are  millions  of  conditions  of  vibration,  as  many 
as  there  are  forms  in  it,  or  as  many  as  all  the  forms  you  can  create, 
but  there  is  but  one  condition,  or  system  of  vibration,  and  life, 
wherein  the  vibration  recurs  back  to  first  cause,  or  primary 
motion  ;  but  all  the  millions  of  conditions  of  vibrations  that  you 
can  create  equal  only  the  one,  for  the  one  embodies  all  the  others. 
Nature  never  gets  outside  of  itself.  And  this  recurrence  of  the 
vital  force  of  life  back  to  the  system  of  life,  as  I  can  show,  is  what 
causes  the  thud  or  pulse  in  thi-  human  and  animal  system  or  body, 
and  that  ever-present  pnlse  can  be  detected  in  every  and  all  forms 
of  organized  life,  even  back  to  the  protoplasm;  and  not  only  in 
organized  life,  but  in  organized  force  or  energy,  as  in  the  galvanic 
battery,  the  waterspout,  thunder  cloud  or  storm,  and  even  in  the 
lines  of  force  in  the  stationary  magnet.  The  ever-present  pulse 
can  be  detected,  and  so  it  is  from  the  plajiet  on  which  we  live  down 
to  the  smallest  organization  of  life  or  force  within  its  grasp. 

•'Some  scientists  tell  us  that  evolution  is  a  spontaneous 
change  from  a  uniform  structure,  or  a  change  from  a  homogeneous 
to  a  heterogeneous  condition.  Now  what  I  claim  is  that  the  spon- 
taneitv  is  in  the  uniformitv    and    not    in    the    change  ;    that    the 


lO   — 

change  is  caused  by  the  environments.  What  makes  it  seem  to 
us  as  a  spontaneit}'  is  because  the  environments  are  ever  present 
within  the  uniformity  of  the  structure  of  the  vibratory  system  that 
runs  the  planet  on  which  we  live  and  holds  in  its  grasp  all  forms 
that  can  evolute  and  binds  them  within  some  kind  of  environment. 

"  The  most  discouraging  part  of  the  work  of  a  student  is 
seeking  the  truth.  After  finding  something  that  he  thought  real, 
he  discovers  that  it  was  only  an  illusion,  and  that  the  real  is  still 
further  away,  and  after  he  has  followed  his  investigations  for  a 
lifetime  and  cleared  away  illusion  after  illusion  from  his  bewildered 
senses,  he  falls  hack  upon  his  reasoning  laculties  and  asks  himself 
the  question  :  Is  there  an  absolute  reality  within  and  beyond  the 
reach  of  human  ken,  and  if  there  is,  is  all  this  side  of  it  a  world  of 
illusion  ? 

"To  show  you  what  I  mean  by  illusion  I  will  illustrate.  I 
will  place  eight  cannon  balls  on  the  arms  of  a  four-foot  wheel  and 
give  that  wheel  a  certain  revolution  and  it  will  look  to  you  like  a 
solid  iron  rim  or  balance  wheel,  but  you  know  it  is  not,  and  why  ? 
Because  you  have  been  undeceived.  You  have  seen  it  start  and 
stop,  or  .seen  some  other  wheel  start  and  stoj),  l)ut  if  you  had  never 
been  undeceived,  you  never  would  know  l)ut  what  this  was  a  solid 
iron  wheel.  All  the  knowledge  that  comes  to  you  from  the  out- 
side world  comes  to  you  through  some  of  your  five  senses.  Now 
there  are  four  of  your  senses  that  have  nothing  to  do  with  the 
analysis  of  that  problem  ;  you  cannot  smell  it,  you  cannot  taste  it, 
5'ou  cannot  hear  it,  you  cannot  feel  it,  and  the  onl\-  sense  that  von 
have  left,  your  sight,  is  completely  deceived,  and  if  >-ou  had  never 
been  undeceived  you  ne\'er  wonld  know  i)ut  what  it  was  a  solid 
iron  rim. 

"Now,  if  eight  cannon  balls,  large  objects  that  you  can  ordi- 
narily see  with  the  naked  eye  at  a  very  slow  \-flocit\-,  can  so 
deceive  the  only  sense  you  have  that  has  anything  to  tlo  willi  tlic 
problem,  and  make  you  believe  that  a  condition  or  form  is  an 
entity  wlu-n  it  is  not  — m;d-:L'  von  believe  tlial  ;in  illusion  is  a  reality 
— liow  much  easier  it  is  for  the  iiiikscMil):il»l\  small  ;it(un<  that 
cannot  be  seen  with  llie  l)est  mii-roscope,  with  an  inconcei\able 
velocity,  to  deceive  any  and  all  \(iur  senses,  ami  make  nou  think 
other  tilings  are  real  when  the\-  are  not,  but  oid\-  the  condition  of 
something  that  is  real.  What  the  somelhin.L;  is  we  do  not  know. 
Call   it  atoms,  call    it  s])irit,  call    it  electricity,  call    it  force,  call   it 


—   II   — 

mind,  call  it  God  ;    but  calling  an  unknowable  thing  a  name  gives 
us  no  additional  knowledge  of  what  it  is. 

"I  see  that  lamp-post  there,  and  why  do  I  see  it?  I  see  it 
because  there  is  an  intervening  medium  between  me  and  the  post, 
and  the  form  of  that  post  is  vibrating  through  that  medium  on  to 
the  retina  of  my  eye,  thence  across  the  optic  ner\^e  to  my  brain, 
making  me  cognizant  of  the  fact  that  the  post  is  there  ;  but  if  you 
could  take  away  the  intervening  medium  and  create  an  absolute 
void  between  me  and  the  post,  I  never  would  know  that  the  post 
was  there.  How  many  intervening  mediums  exist  between  our 
senses  and  forms,  we  do  not  know.  Between  the  hardest  steel  and 
the  X  ray  there  are  many.  How  many  beyond  the  X  ray  no  man 
can  answer. 

"  What  I  claim  is  that  there  is  the  last  intervening  medium, 
the  absolute  of  form  or  what  we  call  matter  ;  the  absolute  reality 
of  this  univer.se  can  act  as  an  intervening  medium  between  all  the 
forms  it  creates  and  the  human  mind,  but  there  is  nothing  to  act 
as  an  interv^ening  medium  between  itself  and  the  human  mind. 
Any  gross  substance  cannot  act,  and  a  more  etherealized  or  spiritual 
substance  there  is  none.  I  claim  that  no  human  being  will  ever 
know  what  the  absolute  reality  is  ;  that  there  always  will  be  an 
empty  void  between  tlieni,  but  what  it  does  and  how  it  does  it  is 
a  problem  that  can  be  soh-ed  by  the  human  mind. 

"  You  ask  me  what  it  is  ?  I  answer  it  has  no  is.  What  is  it 
like?  It  has  no  like.  But  when  you  ask  mc  what  it  does,  I  say 
it  does  nothing  only  through  form  and  in  form.  That  is  what  I 
claim  to  be  able  to  explain  ;  that  when  it  acts  in  form  and  through 
form  it  acts  mechanically  and  mathematically,  and  in  no  other 
way.' ' 


The  preceding  interview  sets  forth  some  of  the  phenomena 
that  I  claim  to  be  able  to  explain,  but  as  I  cannot  treat  of  them  all 
in  a  short  pamphlet  like  this,  I  will  take  up  but  two  of  them  here 
— Gravitation  and  the  Tides — and  lea\-e  the  others  for  a  future 
effort. 

Now,  on  the  question  of  Gravitation,  I  will  .say  that  all  motion 
of  form,  that  we  can  see  or  recognize  by  any  of  our  senses  or  ph_vs- 
ical  modes  of  observation  other  than  deductions  of  the  intellect 
through  the  process  of  our  reasoning  faculties,  is  produced  by  the 
joint  forces  of  some  condition  of  vibration  of  the  absolute  or  ulti- 
mate substance  composing  the  form  in  question.     To  make  it  more 


—     12    — 

clear,  let  me  illustrate.  1  will  take  ten  oranges  in  my  two  hands 
and  put  them  together  so  that  they  will  touch  each  other,  and  ask 
you  what  I  have.  You  will  say  that  I  have  a  bunch  of  oranges  or 
a  cluster  of  oranges,  but  I  will  tell  you  that  a  cluster  or  a  bunch  of 
oranges  is  not  an  entity  and  has  no  real  existence  ;  that  it  is  only  a 
condition  of  the  oranges  ;  take  away  the  oranges  and  where  is 
your  bunch  or  cluster  ?  Then  I  will  move  the  cluster  north  and 
ask  you  what  I  moved  north,  and  you  will  say,  "The  cluster."  I 
will  say,  "No,  it  was  the  oranges."  There  was  nothing  else  to 
move,  and  the  motion  of  the  oranges  is  not  real,  only  an  illusion  of 
our  senses  ;  the  only  real  thing  that  moved  would  be  the  absolute 
or  ultimate  substance  of  the  form  of  the  oranges.  Apply  the  same 
principle  to  the  motion  of  all  forms.  Although  the  ab.solute  or 
ultimate  substance  of  all  forms  may  not  be  recognized  as  possessing 
form  or  tangibility,  as  the  oranges  do,  yet  we  must  admit  that  this 
universe  is  not  entirely  an  illusion  save  to  the  senses  ;  our  intellect 
will  decide  that  there  is  a  reality  in  it,  even  if  it  is  hidden  from  our 
senses  within  the  form.  And  if  the  real  exists,  it  must  be  the 
foundation  on  which  the  mechanism  and  mathematics  of  this  uni- 
verse is  based,  and  not  on  the  unreal  and  illusive  form.  I  claim 
thai  the  reason  that  the  scientists  have  made  no  better  progress  in 
explaining  the  mechanism  of  the  universe  is  that  they  have  used 
the  wrong  kind  of  mathematics.  Becau.se  there  is  no  limit  to  the 
divisibility  of  form  that  is  recognized  by  our  senses,  they  tell  us 
there  is  no  limit  to  figuring  on  the  conic  sections  and  the  squaring 
of  the  circle;  that  there  is  no  limit  to  the  use  of  the  decimal  or 
vulgar  fraction  and  that  the  circle  cannot  be  squared.  Now,  I 
claim  that  there  is  a  limit  to  the  divisibility  of  form,  and  that  limit 
lies  between  the  form  and  the  real  that  creates  and  maintains  it,  so 
when  you  get  into  the  realm  of  form  to  ligmntc,  tla-rt.-  is  no  limit 
to  the  use  of  fractions  until  that  dividing  line  is  reached  ;  hut 
.when  you  go  into  tlie  realm  of  the  reality  to  figurate,  you  must 
leave  your  fractions  behind,  for  you  are  figuring  on  something 
that  was  never  created,  never  can  be  divided,  changed  or  destroyed: 
and  here  is  where  the  mechani.sm  and  the  mathematics  of  this  uni- 
verse rest,  and  this  I  hope  to  be  able  to  show  by  self-evident  facts 
that  1  shall  ])resent.  I  believe  I  shall  demonstrate  that  the  nvolu- 
tions  and  motions  that  we  see  are  not  causes,  but  the  effect  ot'  the 
invisible  systems  of  x-ilnalion  behind  or  within  lluni,  sxstcnis  of 
\-ibration  that  ])rodnce  the  onl\'  motion  that  wc  can  see,  the  motion 
of  the  form.  Now,  when  I  sjieak  of  forms,  1  mean  to  include  all 
forms,  ])(>th  material  and  ethereal,  to  include  electriiMt\-  and  nt'buhe. 


as  well  as  iron  and  stone,  for  all  forms  are  governed  by  the  same 
principal  of  limit  to  the  possibility  and  impossibilty  of  the  number 
and  condition  of  their  motions,  both  primary  and  kinetic.  I  will 
now  try  to  set  out  some  of  the  cardinal  principles  of  my  theorum. 
From  any  given  point  in  space,  form  can  move  in  opposite  direc- 
tions, but  it  is  impossible  for  it  to  move  in  opposite  directions  sim- 
ultaneously, though  it  can  move  in  diff  rent  directions  at  the  same 
time.  The  question  arises,  how  many  ?  The  answer  is,  three,  and 
no  more;  one  motion  for  each  dimension  of  form — length,  breadth 
and  thickness,  or  what  some  scientists  call  the  three  dimensions  of 
space.  When  form  is  moving  in  two  separate  and  distinct  direc- 
tions at  the  same  time,  there  is  but  one  resultant  motion  ;  Init 
when  form  is  moving  in  three  separate  directions  at  the  same  time, 
it  has  three  separate  and  distinct  resultant  vibratory  forces.  This 
principle  of  limit  to  the  possibility  and  impossibility  of  the  vibra- 
tory forces  of  the  absolute  of  the  form  in  the  form  makes  the 
unreal  and  elusive  form  appear  to  our  senses  to  act;  what  some 
scientist  or  professor  terms,  Governed  by  Law,  the  Law  of  Motion, 
The  Law  of  Mechanics,  but  they  have  never  told  us  how  a  law  acts 
to  grant,  prohibit,  or  create  motion  to  a  form,  and  they  never  will 
as  long  as  they  look  to  the  unreal  form  instead  of  to  its  real  units 
for  their  knowledge.  Now,  these  three  vibratory  forces  above 
referred  to  merge  into  a  common  product  of  visible  motion.  As 
the  square  of  the  distance  from  the  lines  of  its  primary  motions, 
and  the  only  motion  that  is  visible  about  this,  is  the  motion  of  the 
form,  the  mechanism  within  the  form  that  is  not  seen  is  the  vibra- 
tion of  the  absolute  or  ulimate  substance  of  the  form,  and  when  all 
the  conditions  of  vibrations  are  created  that  can  be  created,  there 
exists  a  uniformity  of  action  and  a  mechanism  of  structure  in  the 
lines  of  force  within  the  form.  Now,  if  form  cannot  move  in 
opposite  directions  at  the  same  time,  it  cannot  revolve  in  opposite 
directions  at  the  same  time,  but  it  can  revolve  in  different  directions 
at  the  same  time,  and  the  question  arises,  how  many  ?  The  answer 
is,  three,  and  no  more.  Three  first  or  primary  revolutions,  one 
revolution  for  each  dimension  of  form,  or  each  possible  three 
planes  of  vibration  in  the  form.  All  the  powers  in  the  universe 
cannot  make  a  body  or  form  revolve  in  more  than  three  directions 
at  the  same  time  on  three  primary  axes.  Not  that  form  is  real, 
but  that  the  real  within,  that  created  and  maintains  it,  cannot 
vibrate  in  more  than  three  planes  at  the  same  time  within  the  form, 
for  to  exceed  that  limit  would  be  granting  to  substance  the  power 
to  annihilate  itself,  or  move  in  opposite  directions  at  the  same  time, 


—   14  — 

with  the  attributes  of  Omnipresence.  When  matter  or  form  has 
free  access  to  space,  like  a  rain-drop,  or  a  shot  falling  from  a  shot- 
tower,  it  first  commences  to  revolve,  simultaneously  or  alternately, 
on  three  axes  that  produce  three  resultant  revolutions  that  merge 
toward  a  common  revolution,  as  the  square  of  the  distance  from 
their  primary  lines  of  force.  Let  me  describe  the  mechanism  in 
detail.  Take  a  form  of  electricity  or  nebula,  or  a  form  of  any 
other  matter,  either  visible  or  invisible,  tangible  or  intangible. 
They  are  all  governed  by  the  same  principle  of  action  when  free  to 
act.  Take  for  this  illustration  a  form  of  nebula  regardless  of  its 
shape,  for  out  of  the  millions  of  shapes  into  which  it  can  form,  it  is 
impossible  for  it  to  have  more  than  three  dimensions,  length, 
breadth  and  thickness,  or  three  planes  of  vibratory  action.  Now 
let  this  form  of  nebula  commence  to  revolve  on  three  axes,  either 
simultaneously  or  in  rotation.  You  .see  the  three  axes  would  all 
be  at  right  angles  to  each  other,  and  following  the  lines  of  least 
resistance  of  each  others  revolution,  they  will  maintain  tliat  right 
angle  position  if  the  form  has  free  access  to  space  and  as  there  is 
no  infinitx-  in  stability  until  all  the  possibilities  of  motion  ha\e 
been  created  in  the  form,  for  as  there  is  no  stabilit\-  in  a  torm 
revolving  in  free  space  on  one  primary  axis,  the  revolution  on  the 
other  two  possible  axes  becomes  a  spontaneity  ;  for  as  there  is  no 
stability,  deviation  on  ihe  other  axis  is  snre  to  follow  .  and  devia- 
tion is  revolution  and  the  limit  is  three.  Von  see  the  instant  the 
three  revolutions  are  created  there  will  l)e  three  resnltant  revolu- 
tions, and  each  of  these  resultants  will  form  a  resultant  with  one  of 
the  three  primary  revolutions  that  created  them,  and  merge  into 
one  common  product  or  revolution,  and  the  three  resultant  re\-olu 
tions  will  form  a  resultant  with  each  other  :uul  nierL;e  that  \-ihra- 
torv  force  to  the  .same  common  centre  or  rexolnlion  ;in  the  >qn;ue 
of  the  distance  from  their  primar\'  lines  of  re\olution.  Now,  this 
product  of  the  primary  system  i-;  the  only  motion  that  can  be 
detected  by  any  of  our  senses,  and  is  a  visiltle  revolution  of  the 
form  on  one  visible  axis,  and  as  1  show  in  the  inter\-ie\\  ,  in  the 
illustration  of  the  boat  and  the  man,  when  three  priniar\  revolu- 
tions are  not  \isil)le  or  not  recognizable  1)\  our  senses,  the  cause  of 
the  product  becomes  a  puzzle  lo  thosi.'  who  have  not  L;one  deeper 
into  the  mechanisiu  of  nature.  Now,  the  produi-t  of  the  priinar\- 
system,  this  resultant  revolution  on  an  axis,  pnnlnces  within  the 
ultimate  sul)stance  of  that  toini  what  Xewton  eiilled  tin.'  i-eiitiifu 
gal  force  of  a  revolvinj.;  bodw  and  as  the  three  |>riinnr\  revolutions 
transferred  their  centrifugal  force  to  tlu'  x'isihle  revolulioii,  :ind  the 


—  15  — 

forces  between  the  primar}'  and  resultant  was  an  action  of  the  units 
and  not  the  form,  the  primary'  revolutions  display  no  centrifugal 
force  save  in  the  product.  A  body  revolving  on  one  axis  will 
manifest  centrifugal  force,  but  the  instant  the  body  commences  to 
revolve  on  a  second  axis,  the  centrifugal  force  is  transferred  to  the 
resultant  revolution.  Now,  I  will  try  to  show  how  the  other 
invisible  system  of  kinetic  energy  operates  to  utilize  and  control 
the  centrifugal  forces  of  the  resultant  revolution  and  throw  them 
back  into  the  three  primary  revolutions  completing  the  endless 
chain  of  vibratory  cause  and  effect  within  the  form  and  complete  a 
uniformity  in  the  mechanism  of  that  vibratory  system.  Let  me 
say  here  that  the  words  "  inertia  ",  "momentum",  "centrifugal 
force"  and  "kinetic  energy"  all  relate  to  motions,  but  I  have 
selected  "kinetic  energy"  as  the  term  to  express  what  I  mean 
when  dealing  with  forms  that  are  already  in  motion.  To  better 
understand  it  let  me  illustrate.  I  will  place  a  grind-stone  hung  in 
bearings  on  a  platform  car  going  north  on  a  true,  level,  straight 
track  at  the  rate  of  sixty  miles  an  hour.  If  the  stone  is  not 
revolving  in  its  bearings  there  is  no  kinetic  energy,  but  momen- 
tum and  inertia  the  same  as  the  substance  of  the  car  ;  but  revolve 
the  stone  in  its  bearings  and  the  resultant  motion  or  energy  pro- 
duced by  the  joint  product  of  the  motion  of  the  car  and  revolution 
of  the  stone  is  what  I  call  kinetic  energy.  The  reader  will  note 
that,  if  the  stone  revolves  on  the  car  with  its  axis  vertical,  that 
there  will  be  two  conditions  of  kinetic  energy  in  the  stone,  one  in 
each  half  of  the  stone.  If  the  side  of  the  stone  facing  north  is 
revolving  east,  the  east  half  of  the  stone's  motion  will  be  in 
conflict  with  the  motion  of  the  car  and  the  west  half  will  be  in 
union  with  the  motion  of  the  car,  and  form  a  stronger  kinetic 
energy  than  the  east  half.  You  see  the  difference  of  the  kinetic 
energy  is  divided  by  halves  in  the  stone,  but  switch  the  car  off  onto 
a  curve  or  circle  from  the  straight  track,  say  of  a  mile  radius,  the 
instant  the  kinetic  energy  changes  from  a  dual  condition  to  a 
quadral  condition  in  the  stone,  there  will  be  two  quarters  of  the 
stone  where  the  forces  of  the  car  and  stone  conflict,  and  two  quar- 
ters where  the}'  conspire,  and  that  condition  of  motion  or  force  is 
constantly  changing  and  swinging  around  in  the  stone  and  always 
faces  the  center  of  the  car's  orbit  or  revolution,  and  the  stone 
revolves  around  in  that  changeable  condition  of  motion  and  kinetic 
energy  combined,  the  same  as  the  earth  does  in  her  plane  around 
the  common  center  with  the  moon;  and  here  you  have  the  mechan- 
ism of  the  tides.     In  one  plane  or  dimension  of  form,  as  described 


—  TB  —  — 

in  another  part  of  this  pamphlet,  the  four  quarters  represented  by 
the  tvventj^-four  hours,  six  for  each  quarter,  a  low  tide  facing  the 
moon  in  one  quarter  and  a  high  tide  and  the  same  on  the  opposite 
side  of  the  earth;  and  this  kinetic  motion  is  limited  by  the  same 
limit  of  the  three  dimensions  of  form  that  govern  primary  motion; 
and  as  I  deny  there  is  any  such  thing  as  dimensions  to  space,  either 
three  or  four,  and  as  it  is  a  self-evident  fact  that  there  are  but 
three  dimensions  to  form,  yet  I  hope  to  be  able  to  show  how  form, 
although  it  cannot  move  or  revolve  in  more  than  three  directions 
in  its  primary  motions  at  the  same  time,  not  only  can  but  does  go 
into  the  fourth  condition  by  a  union  of  all  the  possible  motions  of 
the  two  systems  of  primary  and  kinetic  motion.  In  fact,  it  is  a 
spontaneity  in  the  nature  of  matter  or  substance,  whenever  form  has 
free  access  to  space,  as  in  the  case  of  the  rain-drop,  the  fourth  con- 
dition of  motion  is  the  final  limit  of  motion;  that  a  sphere  is  the 
final  limit  of  form,  the  mechanism  that  that  fourth  condition  of 
motion  creates,  when  form  has  free  access  to  space  witli  a  pressure 
toward  a  common  center  called  gravity.  The  reader  will  note 
in  the  interview  what  is  said  about  the  three  forms  that  will  fit 
a  superficial  area,  and  the  five  solid  figures.  Now,  the  limit  of 
form,  the  sphere,  is  not  created  by  a  single  act  of  vibration,  motion 
or  revolution,  but  by  a  succession  of  different  systems  of  vibration 
and  revolution  that  work  in  mechanical  harmony,  that  follow  all 
the  lines  of  the  regular  bodies  from  the  lowest  to  the  highest,  tin.- 
lines  of  least  resistance  defined  by  the  triad  condition  of  motion. 
Nature's  limit  of  primary  revolution  marks  out  the  lines  of  the 
tetrahedron  and  the  equilateral  triangle,  and  the  whole  system 
when  in  action  does  not  change  its  parallelism.  The  six  poles  of 
that  triad  condition  of  revolution  define  the  lines  of  the  hexahe- 
dron and  the  sciuare,  and  the  six  resultant  i evolutions  of  the  pri- 
mary and  kinetic  systems,  with  their  twcl\L-  j)oks,  define  the 
dodecahedron  and  hexagon.  The  eight  poles  of  the  fourth  con- 
dition of  revolution  represent  the  octahedron  and  triangle,  and  tlie 
eight  poles  last  named,  and  their  unison  with  the  resultant  poles 
of  the  dodecahedron,  represent  the  icosahedron,  the  form  of  twent\- 
faces.  Thus  you  have  all  the  regular  bodies.  'I'he  platonic  figures 
well-defined  in  nature's  mechanism,  like  the  motion  that  creates 
them,  are  limited  in  nunil)er,  and  on  these  limits  rest  the  mechan- 
ism and  stability  of  the  uiii\erse,  systems  of  \il)rator\-  rex'olution 
that  are  constantly  changing  their  lines  of  force  wilhiii  tiie  form, 
by  uniting,  with  the  lines  of  foree,  the  kinetic  s\stems  of  xihralion 
and  re\-()lntion,  tinis  aetins;    in  a  dual    mechanism    in  each    jilane  of 


—  .1^  —  ^ 

action  or  dimension  of  the  form,  cbntinually  renewing  and  chang- 
ing the  lines  of  force  from  the  tetrahedron,  by  graduation  through 
all  the  lines  of  the  regular  bodies  to  the  icosahedron,  a  twenty- 
sided  regular  body,  one  of  the  platoinic  figures,  and  from  that  to 
the  sphere,  the  final  limit  of  the  form,  as  the  carpenter's  auger  is 
the  final  limit  of  the  primary  motion  of  any  or  all  of  his  tools.  If 
it  were  not  so.  some  genius  would  make  a  tool  beyond  an  auger, 
but  it  never  will  be  done  unless  tools  can  be  endowed  with  the 
attributes  of  Omnipresence.  For  the  auger  when  in  use  is  fulfill- 
ing all  the  possibilities  of  primary  motion,  centripital,  centrifugal 
and  forward,  and  no  tool  can  do  more,  for  in  order  to  do  more  it 
would  have  to  move  in  opposite  directions  at  the  same  time  in  one 
of  its  planes  of  dimension,  length,  breadtli  or  thickness  ;  but  if  the 
auger  was  composed  of  a  pliable  or  plastic  substance,  and  had  free 
access  to  space  like  a  rain-drop,  or  a  waterspout,  so  that  the  spon- 
taneous systems  of  kinetic  motion,  with  their  cross-lines  of  least 
resistance  could  unite  with  the  primary  motion  referred  to  when 
the  auger  was  in  use,  matter  or  form  would  then  go  into  the 
fourth  condition  of  motion,  the  final  limit  of  motion,  and  form  a 
sphere,  the  final  limit  of  form.  If  it  were  not  so,  some  ingenious 
carpenter  would  build  a  form  beyond  the  sphere,  but  it  never  has 
been  done.  It  is  easy  for  the  mechanic  to  follow  the  lines  and 
forms  the  other  way  until  he  arrives  at  the  tetrahedron,  where 
mathematics  seem  to  be  of  little  use  to  him  in  his  search  for  regular 
bodies  below  it  in  uniformity.  Would  it  be  unreasonable  to  sug- 
sre-st  that  the  mathematical  lines  of  vibration,  defined  in  the  tetra- 
hedron,  have  any  relation  to  the  triad  principle  of  primary  motion 
that  pervades  this  whole  universe?  In  order  to  have  the  reader 
understand  this  S3'stem  of  kinetic  energy  and  the  fourth  condition 
of  motion,  I  will  emplo\'  a  well-known  form,  one  of  the  platonic 
figures,  to  illustrate.  Take  the  hexahedron,  or  cube  ;  commence 
to  revolve  it  simultaneously  on  three  axes,  the  six  poles  to  repre- 
.sent  the  center  ot  the  six  faces  of  the  cube  :  the  three  axes  will  all 
stand  at  right  angles  to  each  other,  and  as  there  is  no  conflict  with 
each  other's  lines  of  least  resistance  in  that  right  angle  position, 
they  will  maintain  that  relation  to  each  other  if  free  to  act.  The 
instant  the  three  revolutions  commence  to  act  within  the  form, 
they  produce  three  resultants,  and  as  soon  as  the  three  resultants 
commence  to  act  within  the  form,  they  form  a  resultant  revolution 
with  the  three  primary  revolutions,  all  thus  merging  to  one  com- 
mon center  of  revolution.  The  axes  of  the  three  resultant  revolu- 
tions would  be  at  an  angle  of  forty-five  degrees  from  the  primary 


—    I8  —  -  - 

axes  and  represent  three  of  the  six  equilateral  diagonals  of  the 
cube.  Now,  this  resultant  revolution,  the  product  of  the  primary 
systems,  has  received  from  the  three  primarN-  revolutions  all  of 
their  energy,  and  as  there  is  no  centrifugal  force  shown  in  the  form 
in  either  of  the  three  planes  of  primary  revolution,  the  centrifugal 
force  shown  in  the  product  was  derived  from  the  substance  of  the 
form  in  the  primary  planes  of  motion;  and  as  the  three  lines  of 
least  resistance  of  the  three  primary  systems  are  crossed,  the  cen- 
trifugal forces  of  the  resultant  system  are  acting  on  opposite  sides  of 
the  primary  axis,  and  support  three  kinetic  revolutions,  the  axes  of 
which  will  be  the  other  three  equilateral  diagonals  of  the  cube. 
This  action  is  a  generativ^e  force  and  is  constantly  being  renewed, 
for  it  is  derived  from  the  centrifugal  force  which  is  a  spontaneit>" 
in  nature;  for  as  the  axes  of  a  revolving  body  are  the  lines  of  least 
resistance  of  that  body,  and  the  lines  of  least  resistance  in  this  case 
are  crossed,  the  centrifugal  force  of  the  resultant  revolution  is 
acting  on  six  opposite  sides  of  the  six  poles  of  the  three  axes  of  the 
primary  revolutions  and  becomes  a  generative  force.  You  will  see 
that  the  resultant  axes  of  the  three  primary  revolutions,  the  poles 
of  which  stand  for  two  of  the  corners,  of  the  cube,  represent  the 
diagonal  between  those  two  corners  and  cross  the  lines  of  least 
resistance  of  the  three  primary  revolutions.  The  kinetic  revolu- 
tions, created  by  the  centrifugal  force  of  the  resultant  revolution, 
form  three  resultant  revolutions  with  the  three  primary  revolutions, 
the  poles  of  which  represent  the  other  six  corners  of  the  cube, 
between  which  the  three  axes  run  witli  their  six  poles.  Tims  you 
have  the  fourth  condition  of  motion,  or  revolution.  The  four  axes 
represent  the  eight  corners  of  the  cube,  with  their  eight  poles. 
Now,  I  claim  that  this  system  of  vibratory  mechanism  is  all 
between  the  ultimate  parts  and  not  of  the  form  only  in  the  final 
product  of  revolutions,  or  the  final  resultant,  the  only  action  that 
can  be  recognized  by  our  senses;  that  the  vibratory  systems  are 
within  and  behind  the  motions  of  the  form,  the  same  as  a  bod>- 
revolving  in  one  axis;  as  Newton  described  it,  it  is  moving  in  two 
directions  continually,  centripital  and  centrifugal,  l)ut  the  only 
motion  we  see  or  can  recognize  by  any  of  our  senses  is  the  motion 
in  the  curve  or  circle.  If  Newton  had  looked  to  the  ultimate  sub- 
stance of  the  form,  instead  of  to  the  illusive  form  for  a  solution  of 
the  problem,  it  would  have  saveil  him  the  trouble  of  inventing  his 
\/dw  of  (ira\-itation  ;  he  would  ha\e  seen  titat  the  motion  of  the 
form  was  an  illusion  and  it  was  the  ultinuite  sul)slani'e  that  w.is 
moving  in  the  tw<j  directions  and  that  created  the  illusion  of  the 
motion  of  the  form  by  vibration  in  the  form. 


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I  claim  that  this  can  be  materially  demonstrated,  mechanically 
illustrated  and  mathematically  proven.  Science  teaches  that  our 
earth  is  inclined  2314  degrees  lo  the  i)lane  of  its  orbit.  Now,  what 
I  claim  is  that  that  inclination  is  the  position  assumed  by  the 
visible  resultant  axes  ;  that  it  stands  at  right  angles  to  the  planes 
of  its  three  orbits  with  the  primary  revolutions  and  is  the  invisible 
cause  of  its  visible  position  ;  that  there  is  a  perfect  mechanism  in 
the  operation  of  our  planet  that  can  be  demonstrated  by  self-evident 
facts,  that  cannot  be  disproved.  I  believe  that  I  was  the  first  that 
advocated  the  theory  that  our  earth  is  and  has  been  revolving  since 
its  nebulous  formation,  on  three  primary  axes  that  hold  their 
position  at  right  angles  to  each  other,  and  maintain  their  parallel- 
ism in  space ;  that  the  motion  that  we  see  and  the  position 
assumed  as  to  its  orbit  are  the  resultant  motion  and  position,  a 
product  of  the  invisible  systems  behind  it  or  in  it.  This,  my 
theory,  appeared  in  the  Oakland  Times  on  the  nth  and  29th  of 
June,  1 8 80. 

Now,  there  is  no  such  force  as  a  centrifugal  force  in  primary 
revolutions  of  a  body — the  mechanism  is  in  the  ultimate  substance 
and  not  in  the  form— it  is  transferred  from  the  primary  revolutions 
to  the  product  or  resultant  by  the  vibration  of  the  absolute  in  the 
form,  and  as  the  lines  of  least  resistance  of  the  centrifugal  forces  of 
our  earth  are  crossed,  the  force  is  converted  into  three  kinetic 
revolutions  connected  with  the  resultant  revolution  of  the  primary 
revolution  and  creates  the  fourth  condition  of  motion  and  revolu- 
tion, all  of  which  I  claim  that  I  can  demonstrate  to  the  .satisfaction 
of  any  scientific  mind. 

I  claim  that  when  a  system  of  that  kind  is  organized  and  the 
form  has  free  access  to  space,  (and  when  I  say  free  access  to  space 
I  do  not  mean  absolute  suspension,  but  freedom  with  a  limit  for 
vibration,  like  a  protoplasm,  or  jelly-fish  in  the  ocean  or  other 
pliable  environment)  this  fourth  condition  of  vibratory  revolution 
is  the  cause  and  origin  of  all  life  on  this  planet,  both  animal  and 
vegetable.  The  internal  form  of  beings  is  a  function  of  their 
vibratory  molecular  construction  ;  in  other  words,  one  might  say 
that  the  component  vibratory  atoms  determine  the  external  form 
where  it  is  not  changed  by  the  environments  and  the  change 
reproduced  in  the  reproduction  of  the  specie  called  evolution  ;  that 
at  the  origin  of  life  the  form  is  spherical  and  has  a  pr.  ssure  toward 
a  common  center  and  is  organized  in  the  fourth  condition  of 
motion  ;  that  the  system  organizes  any  and  all  etherealized  sub- 
stances, and   in  the  protoplasm,  when  first  organized   in  the  fourth 


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condition  of  motion,  cannot  be  seen  with  the  best  microscope,  but 
as  it  has  a  pressure  towards  a  common  center,  its  vibratory  interior 
force  soon  brings  the  absolute  or  ultimate  atoms  closer  together  in 
a  nucleus  or  body  of  a  materialized  or  visible  form  called  matter, 
and  the  change  of  form  in  man  and  the  animals,  caused  by  the 
environments,  is  only  a  change  of  the  grosser  ])art  of  man  ;  tlie 
etherealized  part  or  spirit  is  spherical,  and  that  is  not  endowed 
with  the  attributes  of  Omnipresence,  and  is  governed  by  the  same 
principle  of  motion  and  revolution  as  the  grosser  part  of  man.  just 
as  our  earth  with  its  air  and  ether  works  in  harmony  in  a  mechan- 
ical system  with  the  grosser  part  under  one  principle  of  action. 

Now,  after  this  digression,  we  return  to  our  reference  to  the 
free  access  to  space.  This  will  organize  a  sphere  with  a  pressure 
towards  a  common  center,  and  if  a  planet  organized  in  that  way 
had  no  orbicular  motion,  there  would  ])e  no  tides,  for  the  horizon- 
tal of  the  water  would  never  cliange,  but  having  an  orl)iculnr 
motion,  tlie  conflict  of  its  axilliary  and  orbicular  mocion  produces 
a  change  of  the  horizontal  in  two  quarters  of  the  planet  of  the 
horizontal  of  the  water  in  each  of  the  three  planes  of  its  orbicular 
revolutions,  .so  that  a  planet  has  three  tides — one  for  the  plane 
with  the  moon,  one  for  the  plane  with  the  sun,  one  for  the  ])l:ine 
in  the  big  orbit  witli  the  sun — and  these  tides  cross  each  other  at 
right  angles  and  merge;  each  faces  tlie  center  of  its  orbicular 
revolution,  and  the  earth  maintains  its  parallelism  in  these  revolu- 
tions, l)Ut  is  constantl\-  changing  its  relative  position  as  to  tli;;t 
center:  or,  the  three  tides  are  constanth-  swinging  around  the 
earth.  In  tlie  ])lane  with  the  mot)n  it  .swings  around  in  twent\- 
eight  days;  in  the  plane  with  the  sun  it  swings  around  in  ^b^ 
days;  in  the  plane  of  the  great  circle  with  the  sun  it  swings 
around  in  25,000  years. 

Xow,  these  tides  area  conditicMi  of  motion  of  tlie  water  of  a 
planet,  and  like  all  other  triad  motions,  the  product  of  their  action 
is  the  only  motion  that  we  can  see.  lor  we  cannot  see  the  separate 
tides  for  they  merge  into  a  joint  product  of  action  'iMiese  tides 
are  a  condition  of  motion,  and  the  earth  re\dl\es  arountl  in  that 
condition  on  its  three  in'inuiry  axes  and  produces  the  three  tides 
that  merge,  bringing  a  change  e\er\-  six  hours.  The  reader  u  ill 
note  that  the  tides  are  produced  by  dual  causes  in  each  ]>lane.  ami 
if  eit  lu'r  ot  the  t-auses  ceases  to  act ,  there  would  be  no  tide>.  Xow  , 
the  earth  does  not  cease  to  re\'ol\e,  but  tiure  is  no  motion  at  the 
poles  in  each  plane  of  jirimary  revolution,  conseciuently  there  is  no 
tide  there  for  those  planes,  but  a  full  tide  there  tor  tlic  other  ]>l:ine 
of  rex'olution  that  ac-ts  at  riijht  anijles  with  it. 


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The  tide  of  the  great  circle  with  the  sun  merges  with  the  other 
two  tides  and  the  earth's  relative  position  is  constantly  changing 
as  to  the  center  of  that  orbit,  but  as  it  swings  around  only  once  in 
25,000  years,  the  human  race  has  >ct  no  record  of  that  tide  ;  but 
it  has  made  many  thousand  swings  around  that  center  since  this 
planet  w^as  nebulous.  When  the  scientific  world  understands  this 
theory,  the  emergence  of  this  continent  and  the  submergence  of  the 
Atlantas,  the  glacial  period,  the  receding  of  the  ocean  at  Norway 
and  Spitzbergen,  and  the  advancing  of  the  ocean  at  other  places, 
the  alternate  stratas  of  Arctic  and  tropical  fossil  animals  and  plants 
in  Florida  and  Alaska,  these  are  all  made  plain  to  the  mechanical 
mind,  for  it  is  seen  that  the  earth  is  changing  the  relative  position 
of  its  poles  as  to  the  sun  in  that  plane  of  its  orbit,  as  well  as  in  the 
other  orbits  around  the  sun  and  moon,  all  of  which  I  can  materi- 
ally demonstrate,  mechanically  illustrate  and  mathematically  prove. 

If  the  earth  was  25,000  years  travelling  once  around  its  orbit 
in  the  plane  with  the  moon,  instead  of  28  days,  the  changes  in  the 
tides  that  we  now  have  every  14  days,  at  the  new  and  full  of  the 
moon,  would  only  occur  once  every  1 2,500  years,  at  the  new  and  full 
of  the  moon.  This  s\stem  will  account  for  the  tide  on  the  opposite 
side  of  the  earth  from  the  moon,  that  never  has  been  explained 
mechanicall3%  even  grant  the  Newtonian  theory-  of  Gravitation  to  be 
true.  But  in  this  system  there  is  one  quarter  of  the  circle  of  the  earth 
in  the  plane  with  the  moon  that  conflicts  with  the  orbicular  motion 
that  is  opposite  from  the  moon,  and  one  quarter  that  is  facing  the 
moon,  so  the  change  of  the  horizontal  of  the  water  occurs  in  those 
quarters  every  six  hours  in  tliat  plane  of  dimension  or  motion. 
The  three  tides  are  all  acting  at  right  angles  to  each  other  tide, 
each  tide  runs  to  nothing  at  its  own  axis,  and  is  the  deepest  at  the 
axis  of  Its  neighboring  tide.  I  claim  to  he  able  mechanically  to 
illustrate  all  the  conditions  of  motion,  the  final  product  of  which 
produce  the  tangible  visible  tides  that  we  recognize  by  our  senses 
and  physical  modes  of  observation. 

When  we  go  into  the  realm  of  form  to  figurate  on  the  question 
of  motion,  it  is  limited  to  three  planes  or  dimensions  in  its  primary 
motion,  and  it  can  change  its  direction  in  three  planes  at  the  same 
time;  but  when  we  go  into  the  realm  of  the  reality  to  figurate,  the 
question  arises,  is  the  absolute  or  ultimate  substance  of  that  form 
governed  by  the  same  limit  in  its  motion  ?  Is  it  limited  more  or 
less?  Let  me  suggest  that  all  motion  of  form,  inertia,  centrifugal 
force  and  momentum,  of  or  in  a  form,  is  the  product  of  the  vibra- 
tions of  the  absolute  or  ultimate  substance  of  that  form.      A  form 


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can  change  its  direction  of  motion  by  the  vibration  of  its  parts 
mechanically;  but  it  it  is  an  absolute  solid,  and  not  composed  of 
parts,  it  would  be  as  impossible  to  change  a  direction  of  a  moving 
body  as  it  would  be  to  move  it  in  opposite  directions  at  the  same 
time,  and  to  do  either  one  or  the  other  it  would  have  to  possess 
the  attributes  of  Omnipresence  and  be  in  two  places  at  the  same 
time.  For  it  will  appear  as  a  self-evident  fact  to  the  student  of 
science,  when  he  has  given  this  question  the  required  study,  that  if 
an  absolutely  solid  body,  not  composed  of  parts  and  not  able  to 
vibrate  within  its  form,  were  moving  north,  it  would  be  impossible 
for  it  to  move  east  without  first  stopping  its  motion  north  ;  but  in 
this  realm  of  form,  where  the  motion  or"  form  has  deceived  our 
senses  so  long  in  that  regard  that  the  scientists  have  made  no  dis- 
tinction in  regard  to  motion  of  the  form  and  the  absolute  that 
creates  and  maintains  it,  the  question  of  Omnipresence  is  as  well 
defined  or  applied  between  north  and  east,  as  it  is  between  nt)rth 
and  south,  or  any  other  directions  of  dual  or  triad  motions  for 
an  absolute  solid.  What  I  claim  is  that  the  atoms,  the  absolute 
of  form,  never  change  their  directions  of  motion;  that  when  an 
atom  moves  or  is  moved,  it  never  changes  the  direction  of  that 
motion;  that  there  is  no  power  in  the  universe  tiiat  can  make  it 
change  its  direction  of  motion;  that  when  it  is  once  in  motion  it 
keeps  moving  in  that  direction  until  it  meets  another  atom  and 
then  it  stops  and  starts  in  another  direction.  Now,  this  collision 
of  atoms  stopping  and  starting,  is  vibration  pure  and  simple,  \ibra- 
tion  within  the  form.  It  makes  no  dilTerence  whether  the  form  is 
a  uniformity  or  a  promisquity,  it  is  vibration  all  the  same;  the 
only  difference  is  the  vibration  is  in  the  cell  or  crystal  or  any 
other  uniform  structure,  the  joint  product  of  all  ihc  vibration  in 
the  form  operates  mechanically  in  a  system  in  tlie  i'orm.  I  would 
have  the  reader  note  here  that  there  is  a  diff"erence  between  vibra- 
tion in  the  form  and  an  alternate  rapid  motion  itf  the  form.  Xow. 
some  scientists  tell  us  that  the  action  of  the  reed  in  the  llute  or 
organ  and  the  tuning-fork  is  vibration  ;  I  claim  that  the\-  are  onl\- 
alternate  rapid  motion  of  the  visible  form;  that  the  vibrations  are 
invisible  actions  of  the  absolute  of  the  form  that  produced  tlie 
motion  of  the  form  that  we  see,  all  of  which  was  produced  1>\  tlie 
force  of  concussion  or  contact  with  some  other  form,  either  elheri- 
alized  or  tangible,  and  the\  in  turn  received  their  force  fioin  \  ibra- 
tion,  and  so  on  ad  inlinituin.  .\11  the  motion  oi'  a  planet  that 
organizes  is  a  vibratory  system  of  mechanism  in  the  fourth  condi- 
tion of  motion  and  wonld  create  but  one  common  center  of  graxitv. 


—  23  — 

so  called,  if  it  had  no  orbicular  motion  ;  but  the  orbicular  motion, 
b}'  forming  a  resultant  motion  with  the  axillary  motion,  changes 
the  center  of  gravity,  so  called,  in  two  quarters  of  the  planet  in 
each  of  the  three  planes  of  its  orl^icular  motion. 

Thus  we  have  in  the  system,  six  quarters  in  the  three  planes 
that  have  a  common  center,  and  six  quarters  that  do  not  have  a 
common  center  of  gravity.  The  question  may  be  asked,  why  does 
a  planet  move  in  its  orbit,  and  where  does  it  get  its  motive  power  ? 
The  lines  of  vibratory  force  that  would  seek  a  common  center,  if 
the  planet  had  no  orbicular  motion,  are  diverted  from  their  course 
by  the  orljicular  motion  in  two  quarters  of  the  circle  in  each  plane 
of  revolution  in  the  three  orbits,  and  seek  a  center  pressure  or 
gravity,  so  called,  a  little  ahead  of  what  it  would  be  if  the  planet 
was  at  rest  in  its  orbit,  and  impels  the  planet  forward  in  its  three 
orbits  or  three  planes  of  revolution. 

The  question  may  be  asked,  what  is  the  center  of  gravity  ? 
The  center  of  revolution  is  an  imaginary  line  drawn  through  the 
center  of  a  revolving  body  from  pole  to  pole.  The  center  of  gravit}' 
is  an  imaginary  point  where  three  such  lines  cross  each  other  at 
right  angles  in  their  center ;  the  point  where  all  the  mechanical 
lines  of  a  planet,  operating  in  the  fourth  condition  of  motion.  cro.ss 
the  point  where  duration  exists  but  where  there  is  no  measure 
ment  of  time  ;  the  point  from  which  all  the  motions  of  that  planet 
are  measured. 

The  question  may  be  asked,  what  is  time?  Time  is  the 
measurement  of  events  and  has  the  same  relation  to  form  that 
motion  has  to  matter.  Without  something  to  move,  there  can  be 
no  motion  ;  without  something  to  create  the  event,  there  can  be  no 
time.  Even  the  event  of  the  existence  of  our  own  body  produces 
the  illusion  we  call  duration  ;  but  when  we  go  into  the  realm  of 
the  reality,  where  there  are  no  forms  to  measure  events,  fthe  Bible 
says.  "Unto  God,  the  Alxsolute.  one  day  is  as  a  thousand  years  and 
a  thousand  years  is  as  one  day  "  )  the  absolute  is  not  deceived  by 
the  illusions  of  forms,  as  our  senses  are  here  in  this  realm  of 
form.  What  is  a  da>-,  a  month,  a  year  ?  A  day  is  the  event  of  the 
earth  revolving  on  its  axis  once  in  24  hours.  Place  on  the  equator 
24  houses  an  equal  distance  apart  :  you  will  have  just  one  hour 
between  each  house.  Then  move  them  ten  degrees  farther  north  ; 
the  houses  are  much  closer  together,  but  it  is  an  hour  between  them 
ju.st  the  same.  Then  move  them  to  the  north  pole,  so  the  houses 
touch  each  other.  Then  cut  a  door  from  each  house  into  the 
adjoining  one,  and  by  walking  one  way  a  man  can  walk  a  thousand 


\'ears  into  the  past ;  and  by  walking  the  other  way,  he  can  walk  a 
thousand  years  into  the  future  ;  and  by  keeping  step  over  the 
twelve  o'clock  mark  he  will  be  in  the  Everlasting  Now,  and  there 
will  be  to  him  no  past  or  future  ;  there  will  be  no  event  to  measure 
time  for  him  ;  the  only  thing  he  can  recognize  is  the  event  of  his 
own  being.  His  own  existence  makes  him  recognize  the  condition 
we  call  duration,  and  if  his  l^ody  did  not  exist  there  would  be  no 
duration  for  him.  No  more  than  you  can  have  momentum  with- 
out matter,  so  time  cannot  exist  without  form,  and  cannot  be 
measured  without  a  motion  of  that  form. 

Some  scientists  may  say  that  these  things  are  governed  by  law  ; 
that  the  fundamental  principles  connecting  force  and  motion  in  the 
physical  universe  are  obviousl\"  to  be  derived  from  experiments 
alone,  since  intuitive  reasoning  cannot  possibly  give  usan\-  inform- 
ation as  to  what  may  be,  or  what  may  not  be  a  law  of  nature.  But 
if  we  take  the  ground  that  there  is  no  such  thing  as  law,  separate 
and  distinct  from  matter  or  form,  that  the  absolute  of  form  is  the 
law,  or  a  law  unto  itself;  that  it  can  act  only  in  and  through  form  ; 
that  form  is  an  illusion  and  not  real  ;  that  all  experiments  deal 
with  form  and  cannot  be  performed  without  motion  and  vibration 
of  and  in  that  form  and  without  a  knowledge  of  the  final  limit  of 
thai  motion  and  vibration,  the  experiment  will  be  elusive  and 
deceptive  to  our  senses  and  can  only  be  removed  by  the  application 
of  (Uir  intuitive  reasoning  faculties.  Laws  are  not  entities,  or  real, 
and  cannot  act.  Laws  do  not  execute  themselves,  are  nothing  and 
do  nothing.  All  motion  of  form  is  the  product  of  vibration  and 
law  cannot  pre  duce  it.  \"ibration  is  pioduced  by  force  and  not  bv 
law,  and  motion  is  the  product  of  its  action.  The  absolute  is  the 
only  thing  that  acts  and  it  makes  the  form  appear  to  our  senses  to 
do  what  the  absolute  cannot  do — change  its  direction  of  motion — 
and  it  does  it  1)\-  the  vibration  of  tlie  units  in  the  form. 

The  material  laws,  .-o  called,  expressed  by  mathematics,  are 
few  and  simple,  but  the  b(cl\'  of  the  science  consists  ot  a  vast 
scheme  of  numerical  computations  whose  value  seems  to  ai'|)ear  in 
its  application  to  astronomv  and  the  other  j)]iysical  sciences,  bnt  as 
long  as  it  vloes  apjK-ar  and  is  u^ed  bv  scientists,  they  will  never 
arrive  at  the  final  truth  ol  the  mechanism  ol  the  universe;  bnt 
when  tlu\'  are  satisfie<l  to  lea\'e  this  vast  scheme  of  tractions 
behind  and  use  the  few  and  sim])le  prinei])les  of  mat  liem.ilits  in 
the  realm  of  the  re,dit\-,  tlie\'  will  arrive  at  better  leMilts  in  their 
astrononi\-  and  plivsic-s.  'I'he  reader  nmy  a\er  thai  to  rail  llu-se 
energies  prodncin;^  tlu'^i'   I'esnlts   nielanioi  ]i]iic  or  nioKeular  action 


is  simply  to  hide  our  ignorance  ;  we  get  a  name  and  nothing 
more.  To  speak  dogriatically  on  subjects  so  obscure  is  a  sign  of 
the  same  ignorance.  That  may  be  true  when  we  speak  alone  of 
the  ultimate  substance  of  form  as  it  relates  to  what  it  is  ;  but  not 
when  we  speak  of  it  as  to  what  it  does  (and  when  I  say  what  it 
does  I  mean  to  include  vibration  in  the  form  and  the  motion  of  the 
form).  Now,  surely  our  reasoning  faculties  will  sustain  us  in  the 
assumption  that,  ii  a  form  cannot  move  in  opposite  directions  at 
the  same  time,  the  absolute  or  ultimate  substance  of  the  form  can- 
not do  it.  Now,  that  inquiry  is  removed  from  question  to  axiom 
by  the  self-evident  fact  as  revealed  to  us  by  our  senses  as  far  as  the 
form  is  concerned,  and  the  same  fact  will  appear  to  our  understand- 
ing as  revealed  to  us  by  our  reasoning  faculties,  as  far  as  the  ulti- 
mate substance  is  concerned,  unless  w^e  are  willing  to  believe  the 
unreasonable  proposition  that  the  absolute  or  ultimate  sul)stance 
of  form  possesses  the  attributes  of  Omnipresence.  Now,  if  it  is 
governed  by  the  principle  of  possibility  and  impossibility  in  one 
phase  or  condition  of  its  motion,  may  we  not  assume  that  the  differ- 
ent phases  or  conditions  are  limited  in  number,  and  each,  as  far  as 
condition  is  concerned,  like  the  first,  limited  in  action  or  motion  ? 
When  we  have  found  all  the  limits  and  applied  the  proper  mathe- 
matics, shall  we  not  arrive  at  infinity  in  stability,  uniformity  in 
action,  and  the  mechanism  for  which  we  seek,  if  we  apply  our 
mathematics  with  the  knowledge  or  belief  that  all  parts  of  knowl- 
edge have  their  origin  in  metaphysics,  and  finally,  perhaps,  revolve 
into  it,  and  that  mathematics  has  not  a  fact  to  stand  on  that  is  not 
purely  metaphysical  ? 

What  is  mathematics  based  on?  Mathematics  is  based  on  the 
hypothetical  number  one.  And  what  is  the  hypothetical  number 
one  based  on  ?  Is  it  based  on  an  animal,  tree  or  stone?  If  it  is,  the 
animal,  tree  or  stone  are  not  the  same  to  you  as  they  are  to  me, 
and  not  the  same  to-morrow  as  the\-  are  to-day.  W'hicli  one  of  our 
visions  is  true,  or  are  they  both  illusions  of  the  form  to  our  senses 
of  sight,  and  mathematics  ba^ed  on  the  absolute  of  the  form — the 
real,  not  the  illusion?  Because  we  cannot  recognize  the  absolute 
of  form  by  our  senses  is  no  proof  that  it  does  not  exist,  and  the 
fact  that  our  senses  cannot  limit  the  divisibility  of  form  is  no  proof 
that  there  is  no  limit.  Quality  and  kind  come  to  us  by  the  exer- 
cise of  our  reasoning  faculties  by  the  process  of  c(miparison. 
Mathematics  deals  with  vibration,  dimension  and  motion.  No 
man  can  apply  mathematics  in  an  empt_\  room.  He  can  say  or 
think  twice  two  are  four.     Twice  two  what  are  four  what?     Twice 


—  26    — 

two  apples.  Where  are  the  apples?  In  Chicago.  Then  you  are 
applying  mathematics  in  Chicago,  not  in  the  empty  room.  When 
all  the  possible  motions  of  a  form  have  been  created,  both  primary 
and  kinetic,  that  form  never  takes  more  than  one  visible  path  or 
resultant  motion  as  long  as  what  the  scientists  call  the  cohesive 
attraction  of  the  forn)  is  not  disturbed  ;  but  where  all  the  possibili- 
ties are  not  understood  and  the  primary  motions  are  unknown,  the 
product  or  resultant  becomes  a  puzzle,  and  you  cannot  unravel  it 
by  naming  a  law,  as  Xewton  tried  to  do  with  his  apple.  The  same 
principle  will  apply  to  revolution  as  well  as  to  motion,  that  the 
vibratory  energy  within  the  form  in  the  final  product  of  revolut.'on, 
is  not  lost,  but  resolves  itself  into  kinetic  energy  by  a  unison  of  the 
centrifugal  force  with  the  primary  motions,  and  by  crossing  their 
lines  of  least  resistance  is  thrown  Ixick  into  the  primary  revolution, 
or  first  cause,  and  creates  a  never-ending  chain  of  vibratory  cause 
and  effect  within  the  form. 

Thus  is  employed  the  only  ])ossible  primary  revolutions,  the 
resultant  of  the  only  possible  kinetic  revolutions,  that  derive  their 
cause  from  the  vibrator}',  centrifugal  and  generative  forces  from 
the  final,  \isible,  resultant  revolution,  together  with  that  other 
vibratorN-  force  that  a  planet  is  constantly  receiving  from  the  out- 
side, the  ether  or  what  sientists  call  the  rays  of  the  sun,  and  other 
ethereralized  sulwtances  that  are  now  and  ever  have  been  entering 
into  its  control  since  the  nebulous  formation  of  this  planet.  As 
there  is  a  pressure  towards  a  common  center — or,  with  the  orbicu- 
lar motions,  common  centers — it  is  continually  being  condensed  or 
solidified,  thus  yielding  up  its  vibratory  force  into  the  vibratory 
median i-m  of  our  ])lanet. 

Can  the  reader  contemplate  the  uiithinkahle  amount  of  force 
that  lias  been  \  ielded  U])  to  the  running  of  our  planet  i)y  the 
solidifying  or  niateriali/iiig  ol"  the  \asl  auiouiil  ol  matter  of  which 
our  eartli  is  eoiiijiosed  ? 

When  form  is  nio\ing  north  it  i^  inipossil)le  for  it  to  move 
soutli  at  the  same  time  Now,  as  between  north  and  south,  there 
is  an  infinity  in  stability,  no  wavering  or  deviating,  no  attributes  of 
Omnipresence  to  cloud  the  student's  mind,  as  far  as  that  ])henom- 
ena  is  C(jncerned.  Now,  when  all  [\\v  possibilities  of  nioli<  n  or 
revolution  are  created,  there  is  an  infinitv  in  stal:ilit\-  on  all  of  its 
lines  ol'  motion  or  ])lanes  ol  revolution,  and  wlieu  form  has  tiee 
access  to  space  and  organizes  in  a  s>stini  ot  niechaiiisni  and  uni- 
formity, there  is  a  perfei-t  inlinit\-  in  llu'  stabilitN  of  tin  w  liole  svs- 
ti-m  ;    ii  it  was  not  so,  chaos,  instead  ofoidei.  would  hIl^u  supreme. 


I  am  an  engineer  by  trade  and  know  something  al>ont  a  steam 
boiler,  and  I  will  say  that  the  only  difference  between  the  action 
of  vibration  in  the  steam  boiler  and  in  the  dynamo  in  the  power- 
house is  that  the  vibratory  energy  in  the  boiler  is  vil)ration  in  pro- 
miscuity, has  a  pressure  in  all  directions,  is  held  in  place  by  the 
shell  of  the  boiler  and  is  taken  out  in  a  pipe  and  used  in  the  cylin- 
der. The  vibration  in  the  dynamo  is  vibration  in  unilbnnity,  and 
organizes  in  a  mechanical  s>steni  tliac  confines  itself  and  has  a 
pressure  toward  a  common  center — a  wire  is  run  in  and  takes  it 
out  and  uses  it,  for  instance,  in  the  motor  under  a  car,  that  has  less 
pressure  than  the  dynamo.  Here  let  me  say  that  ever\-  rain-drop 
organizes  that  way  and  has  a  pressure  toward  a  common  center 
and  not  only  organizes  water,  but  heat  and  other  etherealized  sub- 
stances in  a  sphere  around  it,  as  our  earth  does  the  atmosphere. 
And  this  solves  the  query  of  why  a  thunder-shower  cools  the  air. 
The  air  being  a  poor  conductor  of  heat,  it  cannot  descend  alone, 
so  each  rain-drop  takes  some  down  to  the  earth,  which  is  a  good 
conductor  of  heat. 

There  is  no  such  condition  as  a  constant  pull  from  the  center 
of  a  revolving  body,  caused  by  what  Newton  called  the  centrifugal 
force  ;  the  pull  is  caused  by  vibration  and  is  a  generative  force  ;  as 
the  form  is  moving  in  two  directions  at  the  same  time,  as  Newton 
showed,  the  resultant  is  what  he  called  the  centrifugal  force. 
Now,  that  force  being  generative  and  from  two  causes,  dual  in  its 
action  and  continually  renewing  that  dual  condition,  the  product 
must  be  an  alternate  condition  of  motion  and  rest  ;  but  our  senses 
are  not  acute  enough  to  detect  the  rest,  for  it  is  not  an  action  of 
the  form  but  the  vibration  of  the  ultimate  substance  of  the  form, 
and  the  illusive  pull  is  the  action  of  the  absolute  in  form,  or  ot 
form  ;  and  as  I  show  in  the  illustration  of  the  sheep,  the  units  ot 
the  form  are  not  doing  what  the  form  appears  to  our  senses  to  be 
doing,  and  neither  our  sen.se  of  sight  nor  our  sense  of  feeling  is 
acute  enough  to  detect  the  rest  in  the  vibrations,  which  are  al\\a>s 
dual  in  their  action.  In  any  one  plane  any  three  points  in  spacf 
are  always  in  one  plane.  The  pull  from  the  center  of  a  revolving- 
body  seems  like  a  constant  pull  from  the  center  ;  we  cannot  detect 
the  rest,  but  a  second  revolution  will  do  it,  and  in  the  primary 
revolutions  there  is  nocentifugal  force  of  the  form — that  force  is  in 
the  form  and  not  of  it,  and  is  transferred  to  the  product  or  result- 
ant fr(mi  the  two  j)rimary  re\-olutions.  Now,  if  two  primary 
revolutions  are  able  to  convert  or  divert  their  centrifugal  force  to  a 
resultant    revolution  as    they  do,   and    three    primary  revolutions 


—    28   — 

divert  their  centrifugal  forces  to  a  common  product  of  revolution 
as  they  do,  why  will  not  the  common  product  or  resultant  revolu- 
tion, by  crossing  its  lines  of  least  resistance,  be  able  to  convert  its 
centrifugal  forces  through  the  khietic  energy  back  into  the  first 
primary  revolution,  and  create  a  never-ending  chain  of  vibratory 
action  in  a  system  of  uniiorm  mechanical  action  ? 

Now,  in  the  common  transactions  of  every  day  life,  we  think 
it  nothing  strange  or  unreasonable  to  see  two  or  more  separate  and 
distinct  physical  causes  operating  to  bring  about  one  effect,  as 
when  we  travel  on  a  steamboat  propelled  by  two  engines,  a  coach 
drawn  by  six  horses,  or  a  boat  rowed  by  ten  men  ;  but  it  seems 
never  to  have  occurred  to  any  one  to  look  for  more  than  one  cause 
for  gravitation  and  the  tides.  Now,  what  I  claim  is  that  all  effects 
are  the  product  of  motions  and  vibration,  and  without  motion  and 
vibration  there  can  be  no  effect  ;  that  the  vibration  in  the  form  is 
a  separate  and  distinct  cause  in  each  of  its  separate  planes  of 
dimension,  and,  when  free  to  act,  works  in  harmony  to  bring  about 
one  effect,  and  the  effect  is  the  only  action  we  can  recognize  by  our 
senses. 

Let  me  illustrate  this  centrifugal  force.  Seat  your  self  in  a 
chair  at  the  center  of  a  revolving  table,  say  forty  feet  in  diameter; 
seat  another  man  in  a  chair  at  the  circumference  or  outer  edge 
facing  you  ;  connect  your  hand  with  his  by  a  string  ;  then  revolve 
the  table  at  the  rate  of  one  hundred  revolutions  a  minute.  The 
man  in  tlie  outer  chair  will  pull  on  the  string  one-half  of  the  way 
around  during  the  first  revolution,  and  slacken  the  string  the  other 
half;  the  second  revolution  he  will  j)ull  and  slacken  twice,  the 
third  revolution  he  will  pull  and  slacken  four  times  ;  the  fourth, 
eight  times;  the  fifth,  sixteen  times ;  the  sixth,  thirty-two  times, 
and  so  on,  sixty-four,  one  hundred  and  twenlx'  eight,  etc.  How 
far  would  he  have  to  dcjuble  the  pull  and  slack  before  it  would 
deceive  the  sense  of  feeling  of  the  man  at  the  center,  and  make 
him  think  that  it  was  a  constant  pnll  '^  lUit  it  ne\er  \\t)uKi  lie.  if 
you  ran  it  up  into  the  hundreds  of  millions.  .As  Tesla  tells  abt)ut 
that  other  condition  of  vibration,  so  this  centrifugal  force  is  not  a 
constant  pull  l)Ut  a  generative  force,  and  constantly  being  renewed. 
But  no  revolution  was  ever  created  bv  man  so  rapid  that  the 
second  rex'olution,  on  another  axis  of  the  same  form,  would  not 
form  a  resultant  with  the  first  centrifugal  force  and  transfer  the 
two  centrifugal  forces  to  the  resultant  rexoliition. 

Let  me  give  another  illustration.  1  will  >tand  \(in  in  a  \alley 
five  miles  away,  facing  a  side  hill  witli  a  nnitonu  >;rade,  at  an  angle 


—    29    ^ 

of  forty-five  degrees.  I  will  mark  the  hill  off  in  ten  foot  squares, 
with  the  diagonal  of  the  squares  facing  you.  I  will  then  place  two 
sheep  on  each  corner  of  the  squares,  facing  down  the  lines  of  the 
squares,  and  have  them  all  commence  to  walk  down  the  lines  of 
the  squares.  I  will  ask  you  what  you  see  on  the  hill.  You  will 
say  that  you  see  a  band  or  herd  of  sheep  that  are  so  far  away  that 
you  cannot  see  an  individual  sheep,  but  you  see  the  band  or  herd 
that  they  create.  I  will  tell  you  that  a  band  or  herd  of  sheep  is  not 
an  entity,  that  it  has  no  existence  as  a  reality,  that  it  is  only  a  con- 
dition of  the  sheep  ;  take  away  the  sheep  and  where  is  your  band 
or  herd  ?  I  ask  you  what  are  they  doing  ?  You  will  say  the  band 
is  coming  straight  down  the  hill,  which  would  be  on  the  lines  of 
the  diagonals  of  the  .squares.  I  hand  you  a  spy-glass  and  you  look 
through  it  at  the  band,  and  you  say,  "  Oh  !  yes,  I  was  mistaken  ; 
they  are  not  coming  straight  toward  me,  it  was  an  illusion  of  the 
sight ;  each  sheep  is  coming  at  an  angle  of  forty-five  degrees  to  the 
diagonal  of  the  squares.  I  can  see  the  units  that  create  the  illu- 
sion, and  not  the  form." 

Apply  this  to  the  absolute  of  all  form  and  you  will  see  that 
the  illusion  can  never  be  removed  by  our  senses,  for  the  abso- 
lute can  never  be  seen.  Anything  real  can  have  but  one  name,  all 
other  names  are  names  of  conditions  ;  but  in  order  to  place  these 
names  properly  we  must  know  on  which  side  of  the  line  we  stand, 
that  line  that  lies  between  the  realm  of  form  and  the  realm  oi"  the 
real ;  and  that  line  will  be  defined,  not  alone  by  studying  what 
matter  is,  but  what  it  does  ;  for  all  the  knowledge  that  can  be 
grasped  by  the  human  mind  is  the  product  of  action,  as  well  as 
being,  since  all  forms  are  created  and  maintained  by  action. 

Some  years  since  I  visited  the  University  of  California,  and 
enjoyed  an  interview  with  Prof  John  Le  Conte.  While  showing 
me  his  experimental  appliances  he  had  occasion  to  display  the 
gyroscope,  and  referred  to  it  as  the  mechanical  paradox.  I  said  to 
him.  "  Professor,  why  do  you  call  the  gyroscope  a  mechanical  par- 
adox?    Is  not  the  top  as  much  a  paradox  as  the  gyroscope  ?  " 

He  said,  "  Yes,  fully  as  much,  so  I  do  not  know  why  we  have 
not  called  it  such." 

I  then  put  the  question,  "  What  is  your  theory  of  the  action 
of  the  top  ?  The  top  is  a  cone  sitting  on  its  apex.  Place  a  piece 
of  wood  in  a  lathe  fashioned  as  true  as  human  skill  can  build  ;  turn 
it  down  as  accurately  as  human  art  can  accomplish  ;  set  it  on  its 
apex  and  level  it  with  a  spirit  level,  leave  it  to  itself,  and  at  the 
least  oscillation   it  will   fall,  and  the  oscillation  is   bound   to  come. 


—  30  — 

No  human  being  ever  made  a  cone  set  on  its  apex  ;  but  if  you  give 

it  a  spinning  motion  it  will  not  fall  ?  Now,  Professor,  what  is 
your  theory  of  the  reason  that  it  does  not  fall,  Avhen  running  as 
when  standing  ?  ' ' 

"Yes,"  he  said,  "that  is  the  question — you  have  stated  it 
correctly.  We  have  but  one  theory  and  I  am  not  prepared  to  say 
that  it  is  correct ;  but  it  is  the  only  one  we  have,  and  we  will  have 
to  keep  it  until  we  have  another." 

Then  I  said.  "  Professor,  what  is  the  theory  ?" 

He  replied,  "  It  is  impossible  to  create  z.  perfect  point;  grind  a 
needle  down  with  the  greatest  of  skill  and  then  look  at  it  through 
the  microscope,  and  you  will  see  a  blunt  point.  The  top  not  hav- 
ing a  perfect  point,  works  to  an  upright  position  on  this  imperfect 
point  as  it  revolves." 

"  Professor."  said  I,  "That  theorx-  will  not  work,  there  is 
nothing  in  it." 

He  laughingl\-  said  that  he  was  not  prepared  to  say  that  there 
was,  but  it  was  the  only  theory  extant. 

I  continued:  "Now,  Professor,  I  ha\-e  a  theory  why  the  top 
does  not  fall  when  running  as  it  does  when  standing." 

"What  is  it?"  he  inquired. 

"  I  told  him  to  let  me  have  a  piece  of  paper  and  allow  me  to 
demonstrate.  1  then  marked  out  two  tops,  one  standing  vertical 
and  the  other  at  an  angle  of  about  thirty  degrees,  and  showed  that 
it  was  impossible  for  matter  or  form  to  move  in  more  than  three 
directions  at  the  same  time  in  its  primary  motions;  that  the  top. 
when  revoh'ing.  is  fullfilling  that  limit  in  all  its  parts  ;  that  when 
the  top  is  N-ertical  these  three  motions  are  all  at  right  angles  to 
each  other  and  have  three  resultant  motions.  Consider  the  two 
motions  as  defined  b\'  Newton  in  a  revolving  body,  the  centripetal 
and  centrifugal,  and  a  downward  motion  toward  the  center  of  the 
earth,  the  centripetal  motion  of  the  earth —but  that  motion  we  do 
not  notice  for  we  nio\e  with  it.  Now,  the  two  resultant  motions 
on  opposite  sides  of  the  to]),  the  product  of  the  downward  motion 
and  the  centripetal  motion,  press  toward  the  axis  ot  the  toj)  and 
form  e(|uilateral  lines  of  ])ressure  ;  but,  as  the  downward  motion 
never  changes,  if  the  to])  leans  over  a  little  the  centrii)etal  motion 
on  one  side  oi  tlie  top  forms  an  obtuse  angle  and  on  thr  other  an 
acute  angle  with  the  downward  moti()n,  thus  tlirowing  the  lop  up 
to  a  vertical  position,  if  the  re\-olution  is  strong  enough. 

The  Professoi  reflected  a  inonnail  and  said,  "  1  ,ini  not  pre- 
pared to  sa\'  that  nou  arc  wrong  ;    I  will  look  into  it." 


— .  31   — 

Illusions  that  are  created  and  maintained  b\'  the  motion  of 
form  are  sometimes  removed  i)y  the  proper  exercise  of  our  senses, 
but  the  illusions  that  are  created  by  the  vibration  of  the  absolute 
of  the  form,  can  only  be  removed  by  our  reasoning  faculties  in  con- 
nection with  a  knowledge  of  all  the  possible  conditions  of  vibration 
within  the  form  itself. 

Speaking  of  the  fourth  condition  of  motion,  I  will  sa\-  to  those 
men  who  are  talking  so  much  about  the  bringing  of  rain  by  firing 
of  cannon  and  exploding  gases  in  the  air,  that  there  is  a  right  way 
and  a  wrong  way  to  explode  and  fire  your  cannon.  You  can  shoot 
in  uniformity  or  promiscuity,  as  explained  in  another  place. 
When  matter  organizes  in  the  fourth  condition  of  motion,  a  sphere 
is  the  final  limit  of  form  and  it  has  a  pressure  toward  a  common 
center  ;  that  sphere  is  held  in  that  form  by  the  fourth  condition  of 
motion,  as  is  our  earth,  a  cyclone  or  a  waterspout.  Now,  in  order 
to  create  that  condition  by  the  firing  of  cannon,  it  must  be  done 
mechanically.  Take  the  hexahedron  or  cube,  place  it  mechani- 
cally with  the  four  cardinal  points  of  the  compass,  take  forty-eight 
cannon  more  or  less — as  long  as  the  number  is  uniform  in  division 
with  the  six  sides  of  the  cube — place  eight  on  the  north  side  shoot- 
ing west,  eight  on  the  south  side  shooting  east,  eight  on  the  west 
side  shooting  up,  eight  on  the  east  side  shooting  down,  eight  on 
the  top  shooting  south,  eight  on  the  bottom  shooting  north. 
Then  if  these  cannon  are  shot,  one  on  each  of  the  six  sides  simul- 
taneously, in  rapid  succession  until  they  are  all  discharged,  you 
will  create  the  three  primary  revolutions,  as  descrii)ed  in  another 
place  in  this  book  ;  and  the  other  kinetic  system  is  a  spontaneity 
and  creates  itself  without  cannon  and  merges  with  the  primary 
system,  and  you  have  the  fourth  condition  of  motion  of  torm,  a 
sphere  of  air,  and  like  a  cyclone  or  a  waterspout  w  itli  a  pressure 
toward  a  common  center;  and  it  will  condense  the  moisture  and 
produce  rain  as  the  cyclone  and  cloudburst  do.  On  this  coast  it 
would  gather  the  moisture  and  condense  the  vapor,  that  is  con- 
stantly being  drifted  into  the  interior  by  the  sea  breeze,  and  hold 
it  until  it  bursts,  then  you  have  the  rain  ;  but  let  me  say  that  this 
should  be  done  as  high  in  the  air  as  possible,  for  if  done  on  the 
ground  in  a  narrow  vallev  it  would  not  be  a  success.  It  should  be 
performed  on  the  top  of  a  hill,  so  as  to  give  it  room  to  organize, 
and  to  act  after  organizing,  and  to  travel  in  its  three  orbits. 

Speaking  again  of  the  fourth  condition  of  motion,  let  me  say 
to  the  men  who  are  experimenting  with  the  flying  machine,  that  if 
they  will  imitate  the  bird  they  will    have  better  success.     The  bird 


being  the  nucleus  of  a  magnetic  vibratory  system,  and  being  insu- 
lated witli  its  feathers,  a  gootl  non-conductor,  the  bird  has  the 
power  witli  its  wings  to  change  in  rapid  succession  the  center  of 
common  pressure  of  the  fourth  condition  of  nioticni,  up  and  down 
and  forward,  and  the  bird  takes  a  visible  resultant  ])alh  ;  the  faster 
the  bird  flies,  the  further  forward  the  common  CLMiter  is  thrown; 
the  bird's  orbicular  motion  forms  a  resultant  with  the  axillary 
motion  of  the  magnetic  system  around  and  in  the  l)ird's  body  and 
creates  a  pressure  a  little  ahead  of  what  it  would  be  if  the  bird  was 
at  rest.  The  bird  may  have  the  power  to  change  the  common  cen- 
ter to  some  extent.  In-  tlie  volition  of  its  will,  by  a  contraction  of 
its  muscles  through  the  operation  of  its  nerves. 

I  do  not  expect  to  gain  credit  from  the  scientific  world  1)\- 
writing  this  pamphlet,  for,  amateur  and  unlettered  as  I  am,  I  can- 
not claim  that  it  has  been  done  with  that  clearness  and  l)riiliancy 
which  has  distinguislied  the  writings  of  men  like  Faraday,  Darwin 
and  Pasteur;  but  I  do  expect  to  see  the  day  when  the  scientific 
world  will  be  as  unwilling  to  admit  the  truth  of  Newton's  theory 
of  the  laws  of  gravitation  and  the  tides,  as  they  now  are  to  admit 
tho.se  other  theories  that  they  had  in  their  text  books,  such  as,  that 
nature  abhors  a  vacuum,  and  that  the  stm's  light  was  a  radiation 
instead  of  a  vibration  through  an  intervening  medium,  aiid  now  in 
their  text  books,  in  their  colloquial  language,  they  say  that  bal- 
loons, hot  air,  etc.,  rise  because  they  are  light.  In  their  older 
books  it  was  stated  more  explicitly,  and  therefore  much  more 
clearl\  ,  that  the\-  possessed  a  qualit\'  called  "levity,"  which  was 
opposed  to  heaviness;  heaviness  made  things  tend  downward, 
levity  made  things  tend  upward  ;  it  was  a  sort  of  action  at  a  dis- 
tance, at  least  it  would  have  required  such  an  hypothesis  if  it  had 
survived  until  Newton  told  them  that  heaviness  was  due  to  the 
action  of  the  earth. 

I  presume  if  .some  scientist  had  not  proved  that  the  air  had 
weight  the  text  books  by  this  time  would  have  told  us  that  levity 
was  due  to  the  action  of  Heaven,  and  where  is  the  theory  received 
from  Newton,  "gravity"  in  place  of  "  heaviness,  "  any  better  than 
levity  without  a  mechanical  cause  to  support  it?  A  mechan- 
ical cause  was  found  for  levil\-,  and  I  i-laini  that  I  have  found  a 
mechanical  cause  for  gravity.  Their  "  le\-it\-  and  i^iaxitx  theory  " 
acting  ill  opposite  directions,  u])  and  down,  acting  at  a  distance 
without  any  claim  of  an  intervening  medium  or  mechauital  cause, 
had  as  much  reason  to  support  it,  as  their  theory  i>l  the  two  tides, 
one  on  each  side  of  the  earth,  aiiing  in  opposite  directions  from  a 
cause  acting'  in  one  direction. 


When  Galileo  said  the  earth  revolved  he  was  called  crazy, 
and  now  that  I  say  that  tlie  illusive,  visible  and  resultant  revolu- 
tion of  the  form  that  he  discovered,  is  only  the  resultant  product 
of  the  vibratory  mechanical  systems  of  the  real  invisible  revolu- 
tions of  the  ultimate  substance  of  the  form,  I,  too,  will  be  called 
crazy.  But  I  will  console  myself  with  the  knowledge  that  these 
people  of  to-day  are  but  the  descendants  of  those  who  murdered 
Socrates,  tolerated  the  persecutions  of  Galileo,  and  deserted 
Columbus;  that  the  evolution  of  the  human  race  is  slow  and  many 
errors  mingle  with  the  knowledge  transmitted  from  one  generation 
to  another;  and  it  is  too  often  the  case,  at  this  late  day  of  toleration 
and  enlightenment,  that  the  persons  who  are  the  first  to  discover 
these  errors  are  denounced  as  cranks  and  lunatics.  It  is  difficult 
to  dislodge  error  from  the  minds  of  some  men  who  have  sustained 
and  believed  them  for  a  life-time;  "  convince  a  man  against  his 
will,  he's  of  the  same  opinion  still."     I  will  add  : 

"  \Mien  proven  wrong  by  facts  and  truth. 

Hell  cling  to  hobbies  taught  in  youth." 
So  it  is,  both  in  science  and  religion,  men  will  cling  to  the 
crude  theories  of  ancient  times  without  either  reason  or  sense  for 
their  support,  and  they  do  this  rather  than  believe  in  a  new  theory 
having  both  reason  and  sense  for  support,  and  carrying  indisputa- 
ble facts  for  their  conviction. 


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